Confidence, momentum and the quest for early wins at the UAE Tour’s Super Bowl of sprinters
'Wins give you confidence, confidence gives you wins': VeloNews investigates why victory in the Emirates is about more than just a 'W' in the column.
'Wins give you confidence, confidence gives you wins': VeloNews investigates why victory in the Emirates is about more than just a 'W' in the column.
Elia Viviani scores sprint victory out of dominant Ineos Grenadiers leadout in Zagreb final stage.
Italian star storms to European track elimination title just five hours after sprinting for seventh in the road race.
From one discipline to another, all within the span of a few hours.
British team finishes outside the top-10 as crashes and illness sees the team fade in San Remo.
Ineos Grenadiers' latest 'Teammates' video answers the questions you never knew you had about Elia Viviani and Filippo Ganna.
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Olympic road race champion out of French stage race but not showing symptoms, staffer on squad also positive.
Ineos Grenadiers leverage wind — and massive work from the world champion time trialist — to deliver another Italian to a win.
Filippo Ganna retains the overall race lead by a 10-second margin ahead of Julian Alaphilippe.
Jakobsen rides the Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl express to his second victory of the race.
2019 champion Carapaz slated to return to Giro, team DS hopes to see Viviani at Sanremo, Giro, road worlds while also racing track.
Here's the news making headlines for Saturday, November 20.
Elia Viviani, who spent three seasons with the Sky team, is headed back to the organization.
Ineos Grenadiers has made some big staffing changes in recent weeks and added a raft of young riders to its roster. Is this the beginning of something new for the team?
Here's what's making headlines on Wednesday, September 8.
Team boss Lefevere also considering bringing Italian fastman Elia Viviani back after he rode with Quick-Step in 2018 and 2019.
Here's the news making the headlines on Wednesday, June 16.
Merlier takes career-first grand tour victory in Novara, Filippo Ganna retains pink jersey after finishing safely in the bunch.
From Dylan Groenewegen's return to Caleb Ewan's ambition for a grand tour sweep, Peter Cossins previews the Giro's sprint field.
Sprinters move to the fore in the hectic one-day race as the cobbled classics draw to a close.
Jake Stewart calls out Frenchman for wayward move that overshadowed Elia Viviani's victory.
Tadej Pogačar finishes safely in the bunch to secure another day in the race leader's jersey Saturday.
Italian cyclists to undergo more testing and observation for heart issues.
VeloNews photographer recalls the chaos of cars honking and mechanics yelling, as the Italian rider came out of the dust backlit by the summer sunlight.
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French team has yet to score a stage win since 2008, but team boss confident of success before Paris.
French team aiming to balance GC and sprint ambitions.
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Cofidis sprint and track star all-in for road racing after Olympic omnium defense delayed.
The event was to include two UCI races: the Prudential RideLondon-Surrey Classic and women's Prudential RideLondon Classique.
Cracks begin to show in pro peloton after six weeks in lockdown.
Affectionately called “The Race to the Sun,” the week-long stage race makes it way down through the heart of France to the Mediterranean Sea, noted for its abundance of sunshine.
The Dutch champion wins for the second time this season, to deny Viviani and Trentin, in bunch sprint to open five-day race, in Portugal.
German sprinter kick-starts season with victory in Spain over Kristoff and Viviani.
New WorldTour status for the women's race and heated competition on the men's side see the CEGORR finding its spot on the calendar
Ewan wins Tour Down Under warm-up race over Cofidis pair Viviani and Consonni.
The Tour Down Under has emerged an important window for the sprinters to test their legs and their lead-out trains.
The Italian star believes he can juggle a full road racing season and still be in contention for an omnium defense.
Viviani will be given star status in newly-promoted WorldTour team as he targets Milano-SanRemo and Olympics in 2020.
Viviani takes 75th career win after crash on two kilometers to go reduced the field.
The final sprint battle in Paris is as much a test of positioning through the vital final chicane and a rider's ability to endure 20 grueling stages as it is of their top top-end speed.
Just three flat stages remain at this year's Tour de France, and the race's pure sprinters must survive the hills and hight mountains to reach them
With Julian Alaphilippe in yellow and Elia Viviani winning his first Tour stage, the team known as the "Wolfpack" continues to dominate.
Elia Viviani out sprinted Alexander Kristoff in downtown Nancy to win the Tour's fourth stage
Italian's sprint-machine is all about integration and minimal frontal area to give every advantage possible for the fast finishes.
Deceuninck has ambitions in both the GC with Enric Mas, and in the sprint competitions with Elia Viviani. As one of the strongest squads in the WorldTour, the Belgian squad should contend for both.
Elia Viviani, Enric Mas and Julian Alaphilippe will carry Deceuninck-Quick Step's hopes at the 2019 Tour de France
Deceuninck-Quick Step expertly deliver Elia Viviani to his second consecutive stage win ahead of Peter Sagan
Elia Viviani ends dry spell after outsprinting Michael Matthews and Peter Sagan to win stage 4 of the Tour de Suisse
Slovak star takes his 17th Tour de Suisse stage win with a masterful sprint in Murten
Caleb Ewan adds to his tally in the 2019 Giro d'Italia. Valerio Conti remains in pink
Fernando Gaviria found little cause for celebration in the way he landed victory on stage 3 of the Giro d'Italia. "Elia was the clear winner today," he says
An erratic sprint from Elia Viviani sees Fernando Gaviria awarded victory on a stressful third stage of the Giro d'Italia.
Elia Viviani will race for redemption at Gent-Wevelgem Sunday, and the Deceuninck-Quick-Step team looks strong as ever for De Panne and E3.
On paper, Deceuninck-Quick-Step boasts the strongest team for Milano-Sanremo, but can it control a typically unpredictable monument classic?
The Italian beats a talented field of sprinters to notch his third victory of the season.
Confidence is crucial for a world-class sprinter. Elia Viviani brings his winning mindset from 2018 into 2019 with two victories in the books already.
We discuss who will win cyclocross worlds and hear from professor Daam van Reeth about why interest in 'cross is waning in Belgium.
The Italian is targeting Milano-Sanremo this season, a race in which he finished ninth in 2017.
Victory at Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race silences demon from 2018 and marks a "perfect" start to Viviani's season.
Elia Viviani sprints through an impossibly narrow gap to win stage 1, catching Max Walscheid in the final meters.
Viviani sets sights on Sanremo and Tour in 2019 in a build to Olympic defense.
Elia Viviani keeps racking up wins in his first season with Quick-Step, a team that has helped him to flourish in the field sprints.
Viviani helping drive Quick-Step toward the team's possible highest ever single-season victory total
Saying that his bike has been checked multiple times for a hidden motor, sprinter Viviani is entirely supportive of the UCI's controls.
VN got a look at Elia Viviani's Specialized S-Works Tarmac Disc.
Having raced before with Froome, sprinter Elia Viviani thinks a Giro win would be the Brit's crowning achievement.
Elia Viviani (Quick-Step Floors) finished second to Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe) on Sunday at Gent-Wevelgem.
With the season's first monument classic getting underway Saturday in Italy, the VeloNews podcast turns to the Recon Ride for an in-depth race preview
The world’s best sprinters are bracing for the season’s first major battles in Europe next week at Paris-Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico.
Phil Bauhaus edged Marcel Kittel and Pascal Ackermann to capture the stage win.
Elia Viviani and Fernando Gaviria have a combined eight wins this season, including Viviani's stage win Thursday in Abu Dhabi.
The Italian rider won the second stage in a sprint and will wear the race leader's jersey for Friday's stage 3.
Elia Viviani took his second victory of the race and sealed the overall victory on Saturday, as a late crash marred the sprint.
Mark Cavendish won the third stage at the Dubai Tour and now sits second overall at 4 seconds behind new leader Elia Viviani.
Elia Viviani sprints to victory in Dubai Tour stage 2 on his 29th birthday, his second victory of 2018 with Quick-Step.
Elia Viviani won the second stage of the race, while Dylan Groenewegen maintained his overall lead.